Re: 2014 : Mon Dec 30, 2013 8:46 pm  

JINJER wrote:

Spot on there Dave, I'm not as convinced with Salford as a lot of people are, if Smith and Chase don't fire or get injured I think they'll be very average.

You could say that about any player in any team in Super League, what if Matty Smith doesn't fire next year or Johnny Lomax? Will wigan and Saints be very average, your forgetting Rangi will have a lot more quality around him at Salford unlike being a one man team at Cas, he'll have a lot more options and better players taking the load in my opinion.

Re: 2014 : Tue Dec 31, 2013 1:13 pm  

Mike87 wrote:

You could say that about any player in any team in Super League, what if Matty Smith doesn't fire next year or Johnny Lomax? Will wigan and Saints be very average, your forgetting Rangi will have a lot more quality around him at Salford unlike being a one man team at Cas, he'll have a lot more options and better players taking the load in my opinion.

Like he does for England? You tend to find his impact drops off when he's put into the teams system rather than a team built around him and I can't see Noble letting him have as much free reign as he did at Cas.

Re: 2014 : Tue Dec 31, 2013 7:04 pm  

Bearded wrote:

Like he does for England? You tend to find his impact drops off when he's put into the teams system rather than a team built around him and I can't see Noble letting him have as much free reign as he did at Cas.

Chase will be the main man at the Devils don't worry about that, and when your team sets up their whole game around one/two men which Salford will then you'll realise how much freedom Chase and Smith will have, England on the other hand play the Leeds Rhinos way of hot potato rugby using the outside backs to do the creating and scoring, you could say the same for Huddersfield, nobles teams on the other hand play very different for one their halfback dependant and use the big guns to finish off the hard work abit like Deacon and Robbie Paul used to do for the Bulls, and believe it or not noble laid down the platform at Wigan, he just wasn't given the time.

Re: 2014 : Tue Dec 31, 2013 7:35 pm  

Mike87 wrote:

You could say that about any player in any team in Super League, what if Matty Smith doesn't fire next year or Johnny Lomax? Will wigan and Saints be very average, your forgetting Rangi will have a lot more quality around him at Salford unlike being a one man team at Cas, he'll have a lot more options and better players taking the load in my opinion.

Johnny lomax was injured for large parts of the season, along with roby, and we sure did look average at times.

I understand why a few people have question marks over Salford (and I understand why all Salford fans seem confused as to why) - but I don't think they have enough quality, even with the buys firing to break the top 5/6.

As for cas, I really like the cas mentality, and as a club I have a lot of respect for what your trying to do, unfortunately that doesn't always translate to quality on the pitch - so I'd say 9th - 10th, but I'd really like it if you snuck into the 8

Re: 2014 : Tue Dec 31, 2013 9:01 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

Johnny lomax was injured for large parts of the season, along with roby, and we sure did look average at times.

I understand why a few people have question marks over Salford (and I understand why all Salford fans seem confused as to why) - but I don't think they have enough quality, even with the buys firing to break the top 5/6.

As for cas, I really like the cas mentality, and as a club I have a lot of respect for what your trying to do, unfortunately that doesn't always translate to quality on the pitch - so I'd say 9th - 10th, but I'd really like it if you snuck into the 8

At the end of the day nobody knows anything until next year, we can all be experts in our own mind but until the season kicks off nobody know nowt.

Re: 2014 : Tue Jan 07, 2014 1:03 pm  

I think it'll be a close season, but hopefully we'll just edge a thriller.

Re: 2014 : Wed Jan 08, 2014 10:44 am  

never seen the point of prediction threads as nobody ever brings them up at seasons end.
Although i think we will probably finish 9th anything less than a play off spot should be seen as a fail. But then it's a relegation year so.....

Re: 2014 : Thu Jan 09, 2014 2:08 pm  

mrpurfect wrote:

never seen the point of prediction threads as nobody ever brings them up at seasons end.
Although i think we will probably finish 9th anything less than a play off spot should be seen as a fail. But then it's a relegation year so.....

So on this thread you say that "anything less than a playoff spot should be seen as a fail", yet in the squad numbers thread you imply we should just about manage to keep out the bottom two.

Just make your mind up for once!

Re: 2014 : Thu Jan 09, 2014 5:02 pm  

Ponterflfan wrote:

So on this thread you say that "anything less than a playoff spot should be seen as a fail", yet in the squad numbers thread you imply we should just about manage to keep out the bottom two.

Just make your mind up for once!

you lying barsteward , I haven't mentioned finishing position in other thread at all.

Re: 2014 : Fri Jan 10, 2014 1:03 pm  

We need to be in at least 9th or 10th come August. We don't want to be sweating into the last 6 games of the season. A top 12 finish this season will do for me - mission accomplished.